Ethno Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy

In this seventh collection of essays, performance activist and writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña, artistic director of San Francisco based company La Pocha Nostra, appraises the role of the artist in an intellectually repressive, post 9/11 mainstream society.

In a world where extreme identity' becomes the subject matter of the Jerry Springer Show, Gómez-Peñaasks what is left for the artist whose critical practice investigates racial, cultural and sexual difference by an extensive examination of his own company's work.

Performing Queer Latinidad

Performing Queer Latinidad highlights the critical role that performance played in the development of Latina/o queer public culture in the United States during the 1990s and early 2000s, a period when...

Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom

Combining black feminist theory, philosophy, and performance studies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates on the significance of physical and mental roaming for black freedom. She is particularly interested in the power...